In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.